About the team behind poetry.sg.
MANAGING EDITOR
Jonathan Chan is a writer, editor, and translator. He holds an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in East Asian Studies from Yale University. He is the author of the poetry collection going home (Landmark, 2022), which was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2024. His second collection is bright sorrow (Landmark, 2025). He reads poetry and creative nonfiction for The Plentitudes and PR&TA. His reviews can be found in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Cha, and The Rumpus.
jonbcy.wordpress.com.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Laetitia Keok is a writer and editor from Singapore. She holds a BA in English from Nanyang Technological University, and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. Her work is published or forthcoming in Narrative, The Iowa Review, New Singapore Poetries, and elsewhere. laetitia-k.com.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Leonard Yip is a writer of landscape, place, and people. He holds a BA and an MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge, where his work on multimedia representations of Singapore’s edgelands was awarded the Members’ English prize for best overall dissertation. His essays and poems have been published with Moxy Magazine, Ekstasis, and the Nature Society (Singapore). He lives and works in Singapore, with a continued focus on the changing terrains and ecologies of the Anthropocene.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Joan Ang holds a BA in English and an MA in Queer Studies from the University of York. They were one of the winners of the 1st Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures. Their interests include Singaporean literature, food writing, and queer and postcolonial critique.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Andrew Kirkrose Devadason is a Singaporean student of linguistics. Under his birth name, Devadason contributed the winning piece of the 2019 Hawker Prize to the journal OF ZOOS. His work has appeared in journals including Cordite Poetry Review and PERVERSE, and anthologies including New Singapore Poetries and EXHALE: An Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Claire Ion is a writer and editor who holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London. Her poetry and essays have been published in The Isis magazine, the Oxford Review of Books, and The Hanok Review, among others. She is based in London. claireion.carrd.co.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Alysia Lim is a full-time educator who teaches literature and music in Singapore. She holds a BA in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University, and an MA in English from the University of York. Her interests include Singaporean and Irish literature.
CRITICAL EDITOR
Wahid Al Mamun is a poet and Ph.D. student in Anthropology at McGill University, studying the intersections of migration, poetry, and political identity formation in Singapore. He is the author of the poetry collection What God Took Your Legs Away (AFTERIMAGE, 2025). His works and translations have also been published in Cordite, PR&TA Journal, QLRS, and other anthologies. Born in Singapore, he now lives in Montréal.
MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
Nicholas Yeo manages promotion and communication at a foreign mission. Prior to this, he was the Projects & Marketing Lead at Pagesetters – Ethos Books, where he oversaw commercial publications and marketing initiatives. His previous experience includes marketing and communications roles at the National Museum of Singapore and a position as a multimedia journalist for Agence France-Presse.
MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATE
Shaik Aqeel Abbas is a (gender)queer writer and filmmaker exploring moral experience through a South Asian lens. Their film work has been curated by Asian Film Archive and Objectifs Centre, while some of their poems were published by AFTERIMAGE in 2025. They are inspired by New Queer Cinema and care deeply about trans liberation.
MARKETING ASSOCIATE
Tan Yuu Shane is a mixed media artist currently pursuing her BFA in Nanyang Technological University. Member of the local writing collective Caesura, Shane’s work can be found in local journals Kopi Break, The Paper Plane Press and To Singapore, From Singapore.
WEB EDITOR
Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer, editor and arts organiser from Singapore. Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, he is the author of two novels, a novella and the bestselling short story collection Be Your Own Bae (2024). He co-founded the literary charity Sing Lit Station and serves as the managing editor of its publishing arm, AFTERIMAGE.
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Li Qi Peh is an Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University studying poetry and poetics and the science and literature of the long eighteenth century. She completed her PhD at Columbia University, and was previously a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program.
ACADEMIC ADVISOR
Eddie Tay is a poet, street photographer and literature professor at the Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches undergraduate courses on creative writing, children’s literature and poetry. He also teaches a postgraduate course on autoethnography, photography and social media. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, one of which also features his own street photography. His recent book, Hong Kong as Creative Practice (Palgrave, 2023) blends scholarly writing with street photography.
